Nicole, I agree with your examples of irony; however, another form of irony in the change of environment is dramatic irony. For example, we as readers know that Baba is more than capable of working as a businessman in America, and then be just a successful as he was in Afghanistan. However, Baba will never be hired by anyone to work at a business because they do not and never will know about his background and experience. Almost every citizen in America does not know the motivation that possess Baba. You can see this in the shock Baba's and Amir's social worker had when Baba rejected their ‘free money’. “Mrs.Dobbins blinked. Picked up the food stamps, looked from me to Baba like we were pulling a prank, or slipping her a trick” (Hosseini 114) The reader and people from Afghanistan already knew that Baba needed to make things for himself, and because citizens of America did not makes it dramatic irony as well.
